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Thursday, March 10, 2011

OMTWI Week One Challenge...Trash to Treasure

Thanks to all of my amazing friends for voting! It was fun to read your emails-even more fun to know you know me well enough to pick out my project! I'll find out tomorrow if I still get to play, either way, it was a ton of fun and very flattering to even make the finals. {Sounds like I'm giving an Oscar speech...}

Here's my week one project from One Month to Win It...auditions for season 2 are open now! Go for it girlies, you can do it! The prizes are awesome-a $50 gift card to Target!!! Seriously, small slice of heaven right there. Good luck...

Here's the inspiration story...

"This project took on a whole new direction about half way through, {but I love the end result!}

I started by building the frame and then painting it. I was half-way through adding a bunch of lettering and small sayings like "take the time to LAUGH & PLAY. Sing and dance! Smell the flowers..." when I decided I didn't love it. I was going to start a completely different project when my phone rang! After a great "you can do this" chat with my bestie, I decided to stick with it but knew it needed something. It wasn't until I was sitting at my daughter's ball practice that it hit me. It needed texture! It needed fabric...

so back to Goodwill I went and found a sheet in the perfect shade of blue, and it was only $4!

Here's how she came together...

I started with a soft blue king size sheet and a handful of plastic frames from my local Goodwill and then scored big time at a near by construction site...

Free wood!!!

The clock parts came from a left-over project and everything else I had here at home.

I used the wood to create a 30x30 frame then

I tore up the sheets into 4 inch strips and wove them across the wood frame to add some fun texture to the piece.

Clock parts came next to help with the frame/number spacing.

I then painted the frames, added some vinyl numbers and then glued them into place.

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